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anterior plait descending, the three poste- 

 rior oblique; ground color, dirty white; 

 showing through cafe-aulait color as white 

 flecks; two indistinct darker bands below 

 the periphery and longitudinal streaks 

 of brown above and extending upon the 

 spire. 



Aulica nobilis nobllls (Solander) I786 

 (Plate 16, Figures 111-112 ) 



Valuta scapha Gmelin, Syst. Nat., 3^+68, 

 1788. Reeve: Conch. Icon., pi. I6, 

 fig. 37, 1849. Sowerby: Thes. Conch., 

 vol. 1, p. 194, pl. 46, flgs.l, 2; pi. 

 48, fig. 35. Tryon: Man. Conch., vol. 

 4, p. 89, pl. 26, fig. 68, 1882, Chenu: 

 Man. de Conch., p. I86, fig. 953, 1859. 

 Maxwell Smith: World-Wide Sea Shells, 

 p. 66, fig. 887, 1940. 



Valuta nabilis Solander, Port. Cat., p. 6, 

 number 89; p. 172, number 3711; p. I83, 

 number 3926, I786. Martini: Conch. 

 Cab., 5, figs. 774-6. 



Alt. 85-125 mm. 



Hab. Polynesia; Singapore, on the reefs 

 (H. Cuming); China. 



Nucleus consisting of four whorls; 

 suture lightly impressed, apex obtuse; 

 post-nuclear whorls, two; suture, rather 

 deep, slightly channeled; sculptrue con- 

 sisting of fine growth-lines, which become 

 raised and rib-like at the suture, where 

 they are curved and occasionally form blunt 

 low nodules; ground, dark flesh color, 

 overlaid with a pattern of zig-zag lines 

 and blotches of chestnut brown; nucleus 

 often darker brown; brown spots often pres- 

 ent upon labrum and upon posterior "wing"; 

 columella with four plaits, the anterior 

 plait extending to the recurved anterior 

 end; parietal wall generously overlaid 

 with white callus; interior, very pale 

 flesh color. 



Aulica nobilis fasciata (Schubert 

 and Wagner) I829 

 (Unfigured) 



Valuta fasciata Schubert and Wagner, Conch. 

 Cab., T. 216, figs. 3029, 303O, I829. 



Alt. 85-125 mm. 

 Hab. Same as preceding. 

 The banded form. 



Aulica norrisi (Gray) I838 

 (Plate 17, Figure 117 ) 



Valuta norrisi Gray, Jardine ' s Annals, 1, 

 p. 4l4, 1638. Tryon: Man. Conch., vol. 

 4, p. 86, plate 25, fig. 55, 1882. 



Valuta norrisi . Sowerby: Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 London, p. I50, 1844; Thes. Conch., 

 vol. 1, p. 201, plate 51, fig. 65. 

 Reeve: Conch. Icon., plate J, fig. 15, 

 1849. 



Alt. 62-75 mm. 



Hab. Dupuch's Island, Australia. 



Nucleus consisting of three whorls, 

 the latter two sculptured with low nodules, 

 placed midway between the sutures; post- 

 nuclear whorls two and one-half; suture un- 

 dulating; whorls strongly shouldered, form- 

 ing eleven, low, spiny, processes, similar 

 projections upon penultimate whorl; sculp- 

 ture consisting of growth lines, emphasized 

 by brownish lines which are most prominent 

 above the periphery; columella with four 

 plaits; parietal wall keeled anteriorly; 

 ground color buff, overlaid with grayish- 

 brown blotches, forming indistinct bands; 

 interior shading from a dark-brown labrum 

 to pale grayish-brown; columella tinted 

 with peach color. 



Aulica piperata (Sowerby) 1844 

 (Plate 18, Figure 122) 



Valuta piperata Sowerby; Proc. Zool. Soc, 

 London, 1844, p. I50. Reeve: Conch. 

 Icon., plate J, figs. l6a-b, 1849, 

 Chenu: Man. de Conch., p. I86, fig. 

 954, 1859. 



Valuta piperita Sowerby, Thes, Conch., vol. 

 1, p. 199, plate 51, fig. 62. Tryon: 

 Man. Conch.,- vol. 4, p. 87, plate 26, 

 fig. 60, 1882. 



Valuta maciillivrayi Cox, Zool. Proc, T. 

 47, fig. 9, 1873. Tryon: Man. Conch., 

 vol. 4, p. 87, plate 27, fig. 76, 1882, 



